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FlyingSquirrel


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Fun exercise, if you're bored:

1) Calculate how many days you've been sober

2) Turn to that page in the Big Book

3) See if anything jumps out at ya or there's anything you can learn or re-learn

4) If it's a personal story, count how many similarities there are between you and the person whose story it is.

Me today, 514 days - in 4th edition, I found 14 similarities with the person's story just on that single page.

Actually I guess once you exhaust the number of pages in the Big Book, you could start over - but instead of days, figure out how many months.  That would get you through your first 48 years biggrin.gif

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Larry_H


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FlyingSquirrel

I tried it but I could not find page 12,421 (LOL)

Great concept and exercise, Thank You

Larry
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OOPS  I Did not read about the months instead of days I will try again at
408 months

-- Edited by Larry_H on Thursday 15th of July 2010 07:36:11 PM

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tHANKS SQUIRREL,I'LL CHECK THAT OUT SOUNDS COOL!! i GOT 3RD EDITION PAGE NUMBERS LITTLE DIFFERENT... smile

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When feeling less than inspired I'll try to remember this idea.  Thanks

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Not good at math?

Here is the Grapevine method


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wow this shouldn't be too hard for me.... when I have a few more months, I could actually be halfway through the Big Book! LOL Good exercise for the beginner or re-tread.

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jonijoni1 wrote:

wow this shouldn't be too hard for me.... when I have a few more months, I could actually be halfway through the Big Book! LOL Good exercise for the beginner or re-tread.


This is a good exercise for old timers too.  We are all progressing or we are going back to where we came from.   There is no standing still in AA for me.

Larry,

 



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Hey squirrel,,,,,,cool 307 months for me! plus some change!!Only by the grace of God......smile

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